The story is set in 19th-century Louisiana. According to the Kate Chopin website, Chopin uses the storm to move the story forward. The storm traps Calixta's husband and son at a local store. AlcÃ©e arrives, seeking shelter from the storm. As Calixta and AlcÃ©e give in to their desires and have a sexual encounter, the storm mimics their passion in its intensity.
In everyday usage, a vegetable is any part of a plant that is consumed by humans as food as part of a meal. The term vegetable is somewhat arbitrary, and largely defined through culinary and cultural tradition. It normally excludes other food derived from plants such as fruits, nuts, and cereal grains, but includes seeds such as pulses.
Legumes or Pulses are the edible seed of certain leguminous plants like chickpeas, beans, lentils, peas and split peas. Leguminous plants provide a valuable source of protein for people and they fix the atmospheric nitrogen in the soil, which makes them important for the environment.ried legumes and pulses are classified into three groups: beans, peas and lentils. They are eaten either whole or unhulled (with the skin still intact) or split in half with or without their skins. In the West, especially in USA, long-cooking beans are popular.